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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
This passing up on Stone thing is weird to me. Maybe I’m in the minority, but sounds like it was pretty clear Stone wasn’t going to sign here. So when evaluating the assets we would have parted with, it’s not a comparison point to what Vegas did because they knew Stone wanted to be there.
Stone rejected Calgary as a long term destination which rightfully so dictated a far more cautious approach from BT on assets like Valimaki. (I obviously don’t know this to be fact, but seems to be the consensus from insiders like Friedman that Stone was very focused on Vegas as his long term landing spot).
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This. Calgary could have paid the same price as Vegas (or maybe more just to be sure) and landed Stone for a 1/4 season and a playoff round or two. Then they lose Stone.
A couple years ago the Jets paid a pretty big price to get Stastny. And they enjoyed moderate PO success. Then he fled. I suspect in hindsight they’d rather have kept the pick (and whose to say they don’t get the same rough result in that PO)?